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RESEARCH MRE 402 hrs GOALS:. Course Specification: THEORETICAL CONTENT PRACTICAL CONTENT Week General Objective 1.0: Know basic operations research principles. Specific Learning Outcome 1.1 Define Operations research. 1.2 Highlight inter-relationship between operations research and other branchs of management. 1.3 Outline the essential characterists of operations Teachers Activities Resources Specific Learning Outcome Teachers Activities Resources
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Explain the following basic approach in statistics: - data reductiion. - data presentation. - data interpretation. - testing of data; Illustrate the sampling procedure. Define confidence interval. Illustrate 2.4 above.
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General Objective 3.0 Understand methods of programming resources. Specific Learning Outcome Teachers Activities Resources Specific Learning Outcome Teachers Activities Resources
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General Objective 4.0 Know methods of planning operations. Specific Learning Outcome Teachers Activities Resources Specific Learning Outcome Teachers Activities Resources
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5.6 above. 5.8 Describe the feed-back control. system. 5.9 Outline the principles and techniques of forecasting:qualitative. - time series analysis and projection. casual methods.
Week General Objective 6.0 Understand the principles of decision - making. Specific Learning Outcome
6.1 Define Decision - Making. 6.2 State the elements involved in decision - making. 6.3 Define and illustrate the terms:- minima cost decision rule. - minima regret rule. a. expected values. b. repeatability. c. decision tree. 6.4 Explain the methods of decision analysis.
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General Objective 7.0. Understand the use of computer in operations research Specific Learning Teachers Activities Resources Specific Learning Outcome Outcome
7.1 Use the computer to solve simulation and linear 7.2 programming problem
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